The octa-core Huawei Kirin 920 chipset goes official
Today, Huawei launched an impressive new SoC housing four ARM® Cortex®-A15 CPUs clocked between 1.7 and 2.0GHz and four Cortex-A7 cores clocked between 1.3 and 1.6GHz in a big.LITTLE™ configuration. Designed for the high-end superphone market this latest SoC promises to offer an incredible user experience thanks to its powerful quad-core Mali™-T628GPU that is capable of breathtaking graphical displays, 3D gaming, visual computing, augmented reality, procedural texture generation and voice recognition.
GSM Arena covers the news in this article.
Mediatek announce the MT8127 SoC for quad-core tablets
At the end of last week, MediaTek announced a new chip specially designed to bring advanced multimedia features, outstanding performance and low power consumption to the super-mid market at an agreeable pricepoint. The MT8127 SoC features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor clocked at 1.5GHz along with a quad-core ARM Mali-450 GPU to enable seamless Full HD video playback. The announcement also included information on a future MT8127-powered device, the ALCATEL ONETOUCH PIXI 8 tablet.
The full press release is available on Mediatek's website.
ARM submits conformance for OpenGL ES 3.1
Also today, the Khronos Group finalized the conformance criteria for the latest version of the OpenGL® ES API, OpenGL ES 3.1. ARM has already submitted conformance for three of its GPUs: the ARM Mali-T604, Mali-T628 and Mali-T760. For full information on this announcement, read Plout Galatsopoulos' blog ARM submits conformance for OpenGL ES 3.1.
Any new devices launched?
This week saw the launch of the XoloQ1200 smartphone, the next in the series from the Indian smartphone brand. It comes with some cool new apps including gesture controls, voice recognition, float task with dual window feature, cold access apps, and smart reading mode, all powered by a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6582 processor with a dual-core Mali-400 MP GPU.
More information on the launch can be found in this article.